Browse our film screenings, seminars, readings, and more
Kimberly Sims, American University The idea that there is a similarity between Italian-American and African-American criminality dates back to the late nineteenth century and persists…
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s,…
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi commodo, ipsum sed pharetra gravida, orci magna rhoncus neque, id pulvinar odio lorem non turpis. Nullam…
Jennifer Guglielmo, Smith College At the turn of the twentieth century, Italian Americans led and participated in some of the period’s most volatile labor strikes.…
Mary Caponegro’s experimental fiction blurs the line between fantasy and reality. In these stories of love and healing gone awry, we visit Rome and a…
In a journey through Southern Italy, Italian American David Marker explores the zampogna, a Southern Italian bagpipe historically considered a shepherd’s instrument. Traditionally made by…
The Avanti Popolo poetry anthology, edited by the Italian-American Political Solidarity Club, focuses on re-interpreting the glorification of Christopher Columbus in mainstream Italian-American culture. Instead…
Mary Jo Bona, Stony Brook University Mary Jo Bona, author of By the Breath of Their Mouths: Narratives of Resistance in Italian America (SUNY Press,…
Gloucester, Massachusetts, is home to over 6,000 residents of Sicilian origin, many of them from the town of Terrasini, near Palermo. In Altro Mare looks…
On view October 27, 2010—January 7, 2011 Click here for full exhibition catalogue. Lilian Caruana’s photographs depict the forbidding and intimidating style of the punk…